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The Bird House is the focal point of the group of pavilions designed for the Budapest Zoo.
The Monkey House, the Rodent House and the Kangaroo House enclose a small square, turning friendly porches, verandas and balconies towards it.
The Deer House resembles the wooden houses of by-gone years on the slopes of the Transylvanian Alps, including the traditional cellular plan-form of the Kalotaszeg/Tara Cälatei region.
The first sketches were radically different from the final versions of the designs.
Similarly to Kós' view of the Kalotaszeg/Tara Cälatei region, the Zoo also is not complete without a castle ruin.
Of all the pavilions the Squirrel House is the smallest, yet it also demonstrates the structural hierarchy of stone, timber and the tower with a shingle roof.
The Dairy Canteen is a shingle-roof cottage with a simple, boarded balcony andopen porch, artistically clinging to the steep slope of the Big Rock.
Initiatives had already begun prior to the turn of the century to create independent buildings for the Székely National Museum that had been established in 1879.
“Thus, I acquired a small bit of land on a steep hillside in Sztána (Stana) above the station, and there I stuck a little house.” (Kós Károly: Életrajz. Szerk.: Benkő Samu.
In 1922, Károly Kós pointed out the plight of two churches in the Kalotaszeg region that were destined for demolition in his article entitled “Ancient Churches” in the pages of Vasárnap (
“The harmony of the stylistic features of traditional folk architecture and modern art.” (Erdei Gyöngyi: A mintaadó polgármester. Bárczy István beruházási programja (1906–1914).